A lot of it has to do with the "hype" cycle going on. If NY and some CIO magazine says "blockchain is the next best thing", everyone dives head first into it.

A lot of it has to do with the "hype" cycle going on. If NY and some CIO magazine says "blockchain is the next best thing", everyone dives head first into it. Then there are a lot online courses which promise to make you an "expert" with couple of hours in training. What people actually get is a very basic level of understanding. This step plays a particularly large role. The next step is to build something using the just acquired knowledge. And once someone reaches this stage, it becomes a case of hammer and nail - To someone with a hammer everything looks like a nail. Solutions which barely meet the problem criteria are taken up because "blockchain" (or AI/ML) Anecdote - We had someone after completing the famous Andrew Ng's coursera course ie novice in AI/ML proposed to build an ML library for data cleaning. The management was very happy with the revolutionary idea - at least he is thinking was what they said.